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We Have Less Than 5% Chance of Avoiding ‘Dangerous’ Global Warming

We Have Less Than 5% Chance of Avoiding ‘Dangerous’ Global Warming

Our chances of keeping warming under dangerous levels by the end of this century are increasingly slim, according to two new studies published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The first study took a statistical approach to examine likely warming scenarios by 2100, finding a less than five percent chance of holding warming below […]

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    Humans Have Created 9 Billion Tons of Plastic in the last 67 Years

    Humans Have Created 9 Billion Tons of Plastic in the last 67 Years

    By Tim Radford Scientists have calculated yet another item on the human shopping list that makes up the modern world: plastics. They have estimated the mass of all the plastic bottles, bags, cups, toys, instruments and fabrics ever produced and tracked its whereabouts, as yet another index of the phenomenal change to the face of […]

    Trump Nominates Climate-Denying, Conservative Talk Show Host as USDA’s Top Scientist

    Trump Nominates Climate-Denying, Conservative Talk Show Host as USDA’s Top Scientist

    President Trump on Wednesday nominated Sam Clovis, a former economics professor and conservative talk show radio host, to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) top scientific position. Clovis, an early advisor to the Trump campaign, has a master’s in business administration and a doctoral degree in public administration, and appears to have no published scientific […]

    8 Ways to Sequester Carbon to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

    8 Ways to Sequester Carbon to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

    By Mary Hoff Klaus Lackner has a picture of the future in his mind, and it looks something like this: 100 million semi-trailer-size boxes, each filled with a beige fabric configured into what looks like shag carpet to maximize surface area. Each box draws in air as though it were breathing. As it does, the […]

    Kids Suing Trump Get Helping Hand From World’s Most Famous Climate Scientist

    Kids Suing Trump Get Helping Hand From World’s Most Famous Climate Scientist

    By Tim Radford One of the world’s most famous climate scientists has just calculated the financial burden that tomorrow’s young citizens will face to keep the globe at a habitable temperature and contain global warming and climate change—a $535 trillion bill. And much of that will go on expensive technologies engineered to suck 1,000 billion […]

    46 House Republicans Side With Science

    46 House Republicans Side With Science

    A couple things happened late last week that feel worth mentioning, to kick off this week on a hopeful note. First, in a bit of legislative wonkery, the House of Representatives voted against an amendment that would have prevented the Department of Defense from studying how climate impacts threaten national security. To express that in […]